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  • Thousands join in candlelight vigils across California

    Thousands join in candlelight vigils across California

    May 13, 2009

    Original source: More than a thousand California workers, interfaith leaders, community allies and elected officials kicked the California campaign to pass the Employee Free Choice Act into overdrive in recent days by participating in statewide overnight...

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  • The role of psychologists in torture

    The role of psychologists in torture

    May 13, 2009 By James Thompson

    As a psychologist, I have been appalled by the complicity of some psychologists in torturing detainees in former President Bush’s “War on Terror.” How could it be that professionals trained to treat mental illness could be...

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  • A thousand scholars urge Congress to pass Employee Free Choice Act

    A thousand scholars urge Congress to pass Employee Free Choice Act

    May 13, 2009

    Reposted from www.laborradio.org More than a thousand U.S. scholars nationwide are urging Congress to pass the Employee Free Choice Act labor law reform. The scholars signed a letter to Congress calling the labor law reform making...

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  • What now on health care reform?

    What now on health care reform?

    May 13, 2009

    With the new balance of forces in Washington, a path has opened for us to achieve a first, true step towards turning around our nation’s health care crisis and achieving quality, affordable health care for everyone....

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  • Retired shingle mill worker contributes to PWW fund goal

    Retired shingle mill worker contributes to PWW fund goal

    May 13, 2009

    FORKS, WA---It took Roberta Wood a 2,000 mile plane ride, two ferries, two transit bus rides and a long drive around Lake Crescent to visit Carl Lausche in the West End of Clallam County, WA. Lausche,...

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